Phoriostephanus Engel and Huang 2016 (crown wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Stephanidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel and D. Y. Huang. 2016. A new crown wasp in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae). Cretaceous Research 69:56-61

Parent taxon: Stephanidae according to S. X. Ge and J. L. Tan 2023

See also Engel and Huang 2016 and Rasnitsyn and Öhm-Kühnle 2021

Sister taxa: Aphanostephanus, Lagenostephaninae, Schlettereriinae, Stephaninae, Stephanus

Subtaxa: Phoriostephanus exilis

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Type: Phoriostephanus exilis

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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